so has anyone grown one of these
or tasted the fruit ?
sounds like it has a lot of fiber, but if it tastes OK
it may be worth it for certain climates ?
anyone know how much cold they really take ?
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Gomera-1 is a hardy variety of Mango suited to a coastal Mediterranean climate. It is used as a rootstock for grafting other cultivars of mango, because the roots of Gomera-1 grow better in colder or dryer areas and improve the cold-hardiness of the plant.
This variety of mango is well adapted to the environment of the Canary Islands. It can be seen thriving in windy areas with rocky soils. It is unscathed by cool and wet winters and fruits very well and regularly. It is found on many islands and it was probably, initially brought from Cuba. The name Gomera refers to the island of La Gomera, one of the seven islands of our archipelago. This is where Canarian agronomists collected the first samples to study this mango which is quite common in the rural areas of the islands. Fruits are yellow, small to average size (250 g average), with very good flavour, sweet, aromatic, with a high content in fibres.
Cultivation
It needs just the same conditions of any other mango trees. It is reproduced from seed. As a polyembrionic Mango, 90% of the seedlings are true to type. Adult trees are able to flower up to 3 times a year. If it is too cold or wet, they will loose the inflorescences and flower again, about 2 months later, until the right season for fruit set is matched. In order to achieve larger fruits sizes, it is good to remove by hand 1/3 of the fruits from the bunch. Gomera-1 fruits outdoors in coastal Mediterranean climates and it needs little or no protection in coastal Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece and also in the French Riviera.
Use as Root Stock for Grafting
Mango Gomera is regularly used as a rootstock for grafting throughout the Canary Islands and also in Andalusia. The use of the Canarian Hardy Mango as a rootstock permitted to push the commercial production of Mango in the Mediterranean basin, because the roots are hardier to cold and wet soil. All the different varieties of mango trees that we offer for sale are grafted on Gomera-1 rootstocks, so our customers in Europe will get the benefit of some added cold resistance from the roots.
http://www.canarius.com/blog/the-cold-hardy-gomera-1-mango-tree/309/=================
Fruit yield, growth and leaf-nutrient status of mangoes grafted on two
rootstocks in a marginal growing area (South-East Spain).
. The height, trunk cross-sectional area, and canopy volume and diameter proved to be the greatest
with Gomera 3, reflecting the vigour of this rootstock. The combinations G1-Ost and G3-Kt registered
the highest fruit yield, offering promising possibilities for boosting subtropical productivity in mango.
http://www.fruits-journal.org/index.php?option=com_article&access=standard&Itemid=129&url=/articles/fruits/pdf/2006/03/i6014.pdf=============
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